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2009/2/18 Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com> |
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> Shawn Haggett wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com> |
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>>> G'day, |
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>>>> I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my |
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>>>> new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. |
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>>>> Right after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing |
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>>>> anything out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy |
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>>>> usb and sd and sr drivers in the kernel ). |
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>>>> I had Ubuntu on this thing for a week or so as I needed something quick |
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>>>> fast when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an issue |
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>>>> when |
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>>>> I had that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. Also, its not |
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>>>> issue when I boot up via live cd ( sysrescuecd ). |
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>>>> I've tried different cpufreq governors ( default is ondemand ) and that |
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>>>> doesn't appear to be an issue. |
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>>>> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. |
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>>>> Thanks. |
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>>> I've never known what those numbers represent (I know it is "load |
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>>> average", but what it means, and what is the range, I have no idea)... |
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>>> Anyway, it seems mine are always around 1+. It's not perfectly idle |
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>>> but not running seti or anything intensive either. |
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>> I remember trying to google the meaning of those numbers once. It was VERY |
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>> hard to find out what they were. It's something like, average number of |
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>> processes in the running or ready to run states for the last 1, 5 & 15 |
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>> minutes. |
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>> Shawn |
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> googling "load average" brings me to |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_%28computing%29>which explains it somewhat. |
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> HTH |
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> Matt |
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> install htop, order process by CPU % and check which one is eating your |
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CPU. |
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